11° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Madwomen

LA DONNA DEI LUPI

THE WOMAN OF THE WOLVES

Country: Italy
Year: 1993
Duration: 4'


How come a good wife, and (what's more) an excellent cook from inland Sicily transforms herself into a terrible hairy beast on nights with a full moon? In effect, its a question of a curious case of the Oedipus complex that has been cured badly.

Biography

film director

Roberta Torre

Roberta Torre (Milan, Italy, 1962) started directing documentaries and shorts, including Le anime corte in 1994, awarded at the Torino Film Festival. She debuted in feature films in 1997 with the musical Tano da morire, which received Kodak Award, the FEDIC Award and the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at Venice, and the David di Donatello for Best New Director. She next directed Sud Side Stori (2000); Angela (2002); Mare Nero (2006), with which she participated at the Locarno Film Festival; I baci mai dati (2010), based on the same-titled novel and which received the Brian Award at Venice and was presented at Sundance. She is also a stage director and author: as well as the already-mentioned I baci mai dati in 2014, she has also published Il colore è una variabile dell’infinito. 

FILMOGRAFIA

Cronica (cm, 1989), Senti amor mio? (cm, 1994), Le anime corte (cm, 1994), Spioni (cm, doc., 1995), Appunti per un film su Tano (cm, doc., 1995), Palermo bandita (cm, doc., 1996), Tano da morire (1997), Sud Side Stori (2000), Il viaggio lungo di Arul, Rani e Vivetas (doc., 2002), Angela (2002), La malacanzone (doc., 2005), Mare Nero (2006), All Human Rights for All (ep. La fabbrica, cm, doc., 2008), La notte quando è morto Pasolini (cm, doc., 2009), Itiburtinoterzo (cm, doc., 2009), I baci mai dati (2010), Riccardo va all’inferno (2017).

Cast

& Credits

Regia e Screenplay: Roberta Torre.
Director of photography: Elisa Paloschi.
Editor: Daniele Ciprì, Roberta Torre.
Cast: Giovanna Balsamo, Carlo Tortorici, Umberto Balsamo, Elisa Paloschi.
Production company: Anonimi e Indipendenti, via Nicolò Garzilli 14, 90100 Palermo, tel. +39-091-335476.
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